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A winkle is a small sea snail with a dark, curled shell, found on rocks by the sea and eaten as food. In Britain, especially in seaside towns and in older working-class food, winkles are boiled and then picked out of the shell with a pin — that business with a pin is what British people picture when they hear the word.
A winkle is a small sea snail winkle是一種小海螺 with a dark, curled shell有著深色、捲曲的殼 found on rocks by the sea生長在海邊的岩石上 and eaten as food可以拿來吃 In Britain, especially in seaside towns and in older working-class food在英國尤其是海邊小鎮和以前勞工階級的飲食裡 winkles are boiled and then picked out of the shell with a pin winkle會先煮熟再用一根針把肉挑出來 that fiddly business with a pin is what British people picture when they hear the word用針挑肉這種麻煩事就是英國人聽到這個字時腦中浮現的畫面
The full name is periwinkle, and 'winkle' is the short everyday form. students already know this creature well: it is very close to what we eat as 燒酒螺, so the picture is familiar even if the English word is not. The word is old-fashioned and regional in feeling; a young person in London may never have eaten one.
The full name is periwinkle完整的名字是periwinkle and 'winkle' is the short everyday form而'winkle'是日常用的簡稱 Taiwanese students already know this creature well台灣學生其實對這種生物很熟悉 it is very close to what we eat as 燒酒螺它跟我們吃的燒酒螺非常相近 so the picture is familiar even if the English word is not所以就算英文字不熟那個畫面是熟悉的 The word is old-fashioned and regional in feeling這個字給人一種老派、地方性的感覺 a young person in London may never have eaten one倫敦的年輕人可能從來沒吃過
There is also a verb, 'winkle out', meaning to get something out of a small tight place, or to get information out of a person who does not want to give it — from the picture of digging the snail out of its shell with a pin. 'It took an hour to winkle the truth out of him.' That verb use is informal and mostly British.
There is also a verb, 'winkle out'還有一個動詞'winkle out' meaning to get something out of a small tight place意思是把東西從一個狹小的地方挖出來 or to get information out of a person who does not want to give it或是從一個不肯說的人口中把資訊套出來 from the picture of digging the snail out of its shell with a pin這畫面來自用針把螺肉從殼裡挖出來的樣子 'It took an hour to winkle the truth out of him.''It took an hour to winkle the truth out of him.'（花了一個小時才把真相從他嘴裡套出來） That verb use is informal and mostly British這個動詞用法是非正式的而且主要是英式用法
組成Shortened from periwinkle, the fuller name for the same sea snail. English does this a lot — cutting a long word down to its ending, the way 'phone' comes from 'telephone'.
同家族的字
- periwinklethe full name that 'winkle' was cut down from
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Winklename
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A surname.
winklenoun詞源 1/ˈwɪŋkəl/
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A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
- […] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.
- Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea.
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Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
- There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).
- The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy a bushel of oysters in a single hour.
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slangThe penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
- After all, he didn't want his winkle to get so big it became unruly and unnatural.
winkleverb詞源 2/ˈwɪŋkəl/
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Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。